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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 6564042, member: 75937"]The coin appeared last year in a <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7442737" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7442737" rel="nofollow">Kunker sale</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, UP UNTIL [USER=101607]@shanxi[/USER] posted the other two examples, I was going to say that it appeared to be known from only a single specimen and it was my opinion that the torch had been removed inadvertently through aggressive smoothing. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, it appears to be a reverse die match to the two specimens cited by shanxi.</p><p><br /></p><p>The OP as photographed by Kunker last year (the highest quality photo available):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263370[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3926002" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3926002" rel="nofollow">Jose Herrero specimen</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263371[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4642229" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4642229" rel="nofollow">Soler y Llach specimen</a> is a DOUBLE die match to the OP (Kunker) specimen.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263372[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, my initial hypothesis -- that the coin was merely an example of RIC 1620 that had been tooled and smoothed such that the torch had been removed -- is incorrect. The OP coin may have been smoothed, but not tooled! It is a rare coin indeed![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 6564042, member: 75937"]The coin appeared last year in a [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7442737']Kunker sale[/URL]. So, UP UNTIL [USER=101607]@shanxi[/USER] posted the other two examples, I was going to say that it appeared to be known from only a single specimen and it was my opinion that the torch had been removed inadvertently through aggressive smoothing. However, it appears to be a reverse die match to the two specimens cited by shanxi. The OP as photographed by Kunker last year (the highest quality photo available): [ATTACH=full]1263370[/ATTACH] The [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3926002']Jose Herrero specimen[/URL]: [ATTACH=full]1263371[/ATTACH] The [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4642229']Soler y Llach specimen[/URL] is a DOUBLE die match to the OP (Kunker) specimen. [ATTACH=full]1263372[/ATTACH] Therefore, my initial hypothesis -- that the coin was merely an example of RIC 1620 that had been tooled and smoothed such that the torch had been removed -- is incorrect. The OP coin may have been smoothed, but not tooled! It is a rare coin indeed![/QUOTE]
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